Less than two full years from appearing in the World Series and only one after earning a playoff berth in the Wild Card Game, the 2017 New York Mets put out a blueprint for what you don’t want your team to look like. With some serious talent on the roster, the team managed to win only 70 games.
The 2017 squad should consider themselves fortunate that the early days of the Mets were as awful as they were. The 2017 team didn’t lose as many games as those old-school ones did. However, there’s a good argument to make about how much worse this year was.